ALTHAUSER
(see ALTIZER)
Emmerich Althauser,
aka Emera "Emry" Altizer Sr: My ggggg.grandfather.
(Hazel Marie Chapman > Lonzo McKinley Chapman > Alberta
Ann Thompson > Mary Ann Altizer > Andrew Reed Altizer >
Emera Altizer [Jr] > Emmerich Althauser) Believed to be the
son of Johann Peter Althauser and Elisabetha Catharina Laucks.
Born 1749 in Dutchess County? New York. Died September 1819 in
Little River, Montgomery County, Virginia. Married (eloped with)
Anna Maria "Mary" Pitzer July 1773 in Hagerstown, Frederick
County, Maryland. See notes directly below about the Althauser
and Altizer names. The children of Emmerich Althauser and Anna
Maria Pitzer were:
1. John Altizer
2. Emery Altizer
3. Elias Altizer
4. David Riley Altizer
5. William Alexander Altizer
6. Jonas Altizer
7. daughter Altizer 1
8. daughter Altizer 2
ALTIZER (formerly ALTHAUSER)
Most of the information about the Altizer
line comes by way of distant cousin William E Payne, who, with
his wife Berdine researched and published "The Altizer Family
Sons and Daughters of the Old Dominion" in 1999. It
is a prodigious, hardcover document of 752 pages and some 6,000
names. Anyone wishing to purchase a copy of that book may email
Bill Payne at bpayne@whidbey.net for particulars. Extended text
that references Altizers on my web pages will appear in quotations
and comes directly from the copyrighted Payne book, with the
permission of its authors, unless otherwise noted. It appears
that the ancestor who was born an Althauser and was the first
to spell it Altizer was Emmerich Althauser, aka Emery Altizer
Sr.
Andrew Reed Altizer: My ggg.grandfather. (Hazel Marie Chapman > Lonzo
McKinley Chapman > Alberta Ann Thompson > Mary Ann Altizer
> Andrew Reed Altizer) Son of Emera "Emery" Altizer
Jr and Mary Reed. Born 10 October 1807 in Montgomery County,
Virginia. Married in Virginia to Lydia Scaggs."Andrew and
his family lived in Blue Ridge, Bedford County, Virginia after
leaving Montgomery County. He is said to have left Blue Ridge
the summer before the Civil War started, about 1860, and moved
to Pike County Illinois and lived near his Uncle William Altizer."
The children of Andrew Reed Altizer and Lydia Scaggs were:
1. Edmondson "Ed" Altizer (1830
1863)
2. Mary Ann Altizer Thompson (1832 1863) (my gg.grandmother)
3. Emery S Altizer (1834 ?)
4. Joseph A Altizer (1836 1921?)
5. Martha M Altizer Applegate (1840 1921)
6. Sparel Hale Altizer (1843 1921)
7. Simon Slade "S.S." Altizer (1845 1907?)
8. Andrew Paris Altizer (1848 ?)
9. Elias Altizer (1850 ?)
10. William Altizer (1853 ?)
Emera "Emery" Altizer, Jr: My gggg.grandfather.
Son of Emera Altizer, Sr and Anna Maria "Mary" Pitzer.
Born 1780± in Virginia. Died 1872± in Little River,
Montgomery County, Virginia. Married his first wife, Mary Reed,
my gggg.grandmother, in 1805± in Virginia. "Emery
was described as being a 'clean-shaven, quiet, small man of medium
build,' weighing about 150 pounds. His eyes were blue and his
hair was gray in his later years... Emery was an old man when
the Civil War started and it must have been very difficult for
him to know that his family had split loyalties during the conflict.
Several of his grandsons fought on opposite sides of the North/South
conflict and not all of them survived the war. One has to wonder
if Emery was aware that his family held different views on the
major event of the century. Emery's descendants were the only
part of the Altizer family that supported both sides of the conflict.
All other families supported either North or South." In
addition to the following "natural" children, Emera
was the step-father to a George Reid. The children of Emera Altizer
Jr and Mary Reed were:
1. Andrew Reed Altizer (1807 ?) (my
ggg.grandfather)
2. Edward A Altizer (1809± ?)
3. Anna (Julia?) Altizer Reed (1809± ?)
4. Dicy "Bitey" Altizer Reed (1811 1865)
5. Elias Reed "Ale" Altizer (1812 1900)
6. Mary O "Millie" Altizer Dulaney (1819±
?)
Emery married his second wife, Margaret
"Peggy" Griffith, in 1821± and their children
were:
1. Delila Altizer Akers (1822 1911)
2. Rachel Altizer Alley (1825 ?)
3. Aaron Altizer (1826 1923)
4. Jeptha Griffith Altizer (1828 1911)
5. Elizabeth Altizer Akers (1831± ?)
6. Emory Griffith Altizer (1836 ?).
Emera "Emry" Altizer Sr: My ggggg.grandfather. See Althauser, Emmerich Sr.
Lydia Scaggs Altizer: My ggg.grandmother. See Scaggs.
Mary Ann Altizer:
My g.great grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman>Lonzo McKinley
Chapman>Alberta Ann Thompson>Mary Ann Altizer) Daughter
of Andrew Reed Altizer and Lydia Scaggs. Born 4 March 1832 in
Montgomery County, Virginia. Died 1863 near Houston, Texas County,
Missouri. Married Charles T Thompson 6 January 1853 in Surry
County, North Carolina. The children of Mary Ann Altizer and
Charles T Thompson were:
1. Alberta Ann Thompson Chapman (1855-1921)
(my great grandmother)
2. Henry E Thompson (twin, 1856-1920)
3. William F Thompson (twin, 1856-?)
4. Joseph A Thompson (twin, 1860-1922)
5. John M Thompson (twin, 1860-?)
6. Lydia E Thompson Payne (1862-1916)
Mary Reed Altizer: My gggg.grandmother. See Reed.
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BASHORE (BAISHORE)
BAUER (?)
BITZER (see PITZER)
BROCK
Elizabeth Webb Huitt Brock: My gggg.grandmother. See Webb. [There
may be some confusion as to whether it was Elizabeth Webb Huwitt
who was widowed and married Thomas Brock or her daughter-in-law
Elizabeth Henderson Huitt who was widowed and married Thomas
Brock]
BURKE
Nancy Burke :
My ggg.grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman > Lonzo McKinley
Chapman > James A Chapman > John Miles Chapman > Nancy
Burke) Married 24 January 1810 in Knox County, Tennessee to Miles
Chapman. Believed to have died in 1840 or 1850 in Knox County,
Tennessee. Children of Nancy Burke and Miles Chapman were:
1. John Miles Chapman (1811 ?) (my
gg.grandfather)
2. Lyman J Chapman
BÜSCHING
Büsching is a surname/placename
historically attached to the surname von Fingerlin, eg: Edgar
Maximilian von Fingerlin-Büsching. Sometimes written: von
Büsching and sometimes spelled Bisching, Bishington, Bischingen
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CARNS
Catherine Ann Carns: My gg.grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman >
Lonzo McKinley Chapman > James A Chapman > Catherine Ann
Carns) Born 1811 in Tennessee. Married 5 January 1830 in Knox
County Tennessee to John Miles Chapman. Children of Catherine
Ann Carns and John Miles Chapman were:
1. William B Chapman (1832-?)
2. Miles Chapman (1836-?)
3. James A Chapman (my great grandfather) (twin, 1837-1925)
4. Jane "Nancy" Chapman (twin, 1837-?)
5. Catherine Chapman (1840-?)
6. Thomas J Chapman (1842-?)
7. John Chapman (1845-?)
8. Mary Ann Chapman (1846-?)
9. Lelitha E Chapman (1847-?).
CHAPMAN
Catherine Ann Carns Chapman: My gg.grandmother. See Carns.
Derwood Orville "Woody" Chapman : My uncle. Hazel Marie Chapman's brother. Son
of Lonzo McKinley Chapman and Lonnie Marie Frago. Born 15 January
1920 in Viburnum, Iron County, Missouri. Died 13 January 1998
in Hawaii. Married (1) 21 June 1945 to Carmen Alma "Pudgy"
Martinez . From this marriage he was father of Virginia Lynn
Chapman Vinal (1946-) and William Derwood Chapman (1950-). Married
(2) at the Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County,
California to Gillian Sherman. Uncle Woody served in the US Coast
Guard during WWII and he was an heroic firefighter/engineer for
the city of Los Angeles. He and Aunt Pudgy could dance a mean
jitterbug and I remember Uncle Woody singing and playing "Hello
Mary Lou" on his Martin guitar. He was an avid outdoorsman,
enjoying hunting, fishing, crabbing, boating, hiking, and waterskiing.
In the 1950's and 1960's he recorded many of these activities,
as well as family get-togethers with his 8mm movie camera. His
son Bill has had these films transferred to video and they are
a treasured memento of our family at that time. After Uncle Woody
married Gillian, a native of Great Britain, he retired from the
LA Fire Department, they moved to Grants Pass Oregon and then
to Sequim Washington, and enjoyed outdoor activities and world
travel. Uncle Woody was a broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped, blue-eyed
blond with a winning smile that seemed to slip to one side.
Hazel Marie "Marie" Chapman: My mother. Daughter of Lonzo McKinley Chapman
and Lonnie Marie Frago. Born 16 September 1918 in St Louis, Missouri.
Married 19 June 1938 in Mexico to Edward Edgar Cleveland. Children
of Hazel Marie Chapman and Edward Edgar Cleveland are:
1. Donna Lee Cleveland (1939 --)
2. Edward Alfred Cleveland (1940 --) page
with photographs .
3. Jane Marie Cleveland (1945 --).
Click here
to see the first in a series of ancestral pedigree charts for
Marie.
Click here for a brief biography
and a stunning photograph.
James A Chapman:
My g.grandfather. (Hazel Marie Chapman > Lonzo McKinley Chapman
> James A Chapman) Son of John Miles Chapman and Catherine
Ann Carns. Twin to Jane "Nancy" Chapman. Born 12 October
1837 in Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri. Died 10 July 1925
near Upper Indian Creek, Missouri. Married (1) 28 January 1866
in Dent Township, Iron County, Missouri, to Mary Ann Wood. From
this marriage, the following children were born:
1. Sarah Catherine Chapman Turnbough (1867±
-- ?)
2. John Harris Chapman (1869± -- ?)
3. Thomas Miles Chapman (1874 -- ?)
Married (2) 20 March 1878 at the home of
her parents in Goodwater, Iron County, to Alberta Ann Thompson.
From this marriage, the following children were born:
1. Mollie E Chapman Mincher (17 December
1878 -- 12 February 1910)
2. Margie Alcie Chapman Thurman (8 September 1880 -- 12 February
1960)
3. Ludie Chapman Yount (11 December 1882 -- 17 November 1971)
4. Charles Calvin Chapman (15 September 1884 -- 24 February 1956)
5. Gentry Judd Chapman (30 August 1886 -- 31 October 1967)
6. Elbert Luther Chapman (17 October 1888 -- 26 July 1970)
7. Minnie Lee Chapman Baker (3 September 1890 -- 27 June 1979)
8. Audra Belle Chapman Turner (12 August 1892 -- 12 May 1976)
9. Lonzo McKinley Chapman (31 August 1896 -- 3 August 1965) (my
grandfather)
10. Ada Pearl Chapman Leathers (3 August 1898 -- ?)
James A Chapman served in the Union Army
during the Civil War and his discharge certificate states: "To
all whom it may Concern: Know ye, That James A Chapman, a Private
of Captain William H Lynch's Company (D), 32nd Regiment of Missouri
Infantry volunteers, who was enrolled on the twenty-third day
of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two to serve
three years or during the war, is hereby Discharged from the
service of the United States this Eighteenth day of July, 1865,
at Louisville Kentucky by reason of Expiration of term of service.
(No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.) Said
James A Chapman was born in Steelville in the State of Missouri,
is twenty four years of age, five feet six inches high, dark
complexion, black eyes, brown hair, and by occupation when enrolled,
a farmer."
John Miles Chapman:
My gg.grandfather. (Hazel Marie Chapman > Lonzo McKinley Chapman
> James A Chapman > John Miles Chapman) Son of Miles Chapman
and Nancy Burke. Born in 1811 near Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Married (1) 5 January 1830 in Knox County, Tennessee, to Catherine
Ann Carns. Children of John Miles Chapman and Catherine Ann Carns:
1. William B Chapman (1832 -- ?)
2. Miles Chapman(1836 -- ?)
3. James A Chapman (twin, 1837 -- 1925) (my great grandfather)
4. Jane "Nancy" Chapman (1837 -- ?)
5. Catherine Chapman (1840 -- ?)
6. Thomas J Chapman (1842 -- ?)
7. John Chapman (1845 ?)
8. Mary Ann Chapman (1846 -- ?)
9. Lelitha E Chapman (1847 -- ?)
John Miles Chapman married (2) Sarah ___.
Progeny, if any, unknown.
Lonnie Marie Frago Chapman: My maternal grandmother. See Frago.
Lonzo McKinley Chapman (AKA: Alonzo, Lon): My maternal grandfather. Son
of James A Chapman and Alberta Ann Thompson Chapman. Born 31
August 1896 in Viburnum, Iron County, Missouri. Died 8 March
1965 of complications of emphysema in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, California. Married 25 November 1917 to Lonnie Marie
Frago.Their children were:
1. Hazel Marie Chapman Cleveland (1918
--) (my momma)
2. Derwood Orville Chapman (1920 -- 1998)
3. Patricia Lorraine Chapman Swanhart (1926 --)
Grandpa was a taxi driver, a streetcar
conductor, a drive-in restaurant & "Big Orange"
orange juice stand entrepreneur, a realtor, a Dodger's fan, and
during The Great Depression he sold fish on the streets of St
Louis Missouri, singing, "Come out you old ladies, with
your bald-headed babies; bring out your dishpan, here comes the
fishman." He also sold apples and box lunches doing business
as "Big Quarter Box Lunch" in partnership with his
brother-in-law ___ Baker. He had male-pattern baldness, sparkling
blue eyes, and a great smile - a visage not unlike that of actor
Robert Duvall. He had a fatal cigarette habit and a little hypochondria.
Once while driving through a residential neighborhood of Ukiah
California, Mom said, "Oh, there's Dr. 'So-and-so'."
Grandpa stopped his car in the middle of the intersection and
stepped out to flag him down for medical advice. "Oh, Doc!"
Grandpa shouted. Mom and Grandma were mortified and talked him
back into his 2-tone green, 1952 Chrysler. He used to warn me
to watch out for the spangdoodlers and wampus cats in the forest
. Grandpa will have a linked illustrated page eventually.
Miles Chapman: My ggg.grandfather. Married 24 January
1810, in Knox County Tennessee, to Nancy Burke. Father of John
Miles Chapman (1811 ?) and Lyman J Chapman. May have
died in 1840 or 1850.
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CLEVELAND
The Surname Cleveland first appeared in
our family when my grandfather, nee William Alfred vonFingerlin,
changed his surname to Cleveland, date unknown, but believed
to be about 1905, when he eloped from his home in Greenville
South Carolina with the household maid, Jeanette "Jennie"
Krause, a recent emigrant from Bohemia (now Czech Republic) via
New York City, New York.
Edward Edgar Cleveland: My father. Son of Alfred William vonFingerlin
and Jeanette "Jennie" Krause. ( More links to Edward:
ancestral pedigree chart |
bio page with photographs | his mother's page ) Born 25 February
1907 in Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia. Died 25 March 1992
in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California of heart failure, 2.5
years after suffering a debilitating stroke. Married (1) to Jerelene
Mabel deTarr, to whom no whom no live children were born [one
miscarriage]. Married (2) to Hazel Marie Chapman on 19 June 1938
in Tijuana Mexico. Edward and Marie were the parents of :
1. Donna Lee Cleveland (1939 )
2. Edward Alfred Cleveland (1940 ) link to a page
of photographs
3. Jane Marie Cleveland (1945 )
Hazel Marie Chapman Cleveland: My mother. See Chapman.
Jeanette Krause Cleveland: My paternal grandmother. See Krause.
William Alfred Cleveland: My paternal grandfather. See von Fingerlin.
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de FRAGA (see also: FRAGA
and FRAGO)
Antonio C de Fraga: AKA Antonio C Frago. My great grandfather. (Hazel
Marie Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago < Antonio C. de Fraga)
Born June 1870 in either the Azores Islands of Portugal (according
to the 1900 census) or New Bedford Massachusetts (according to
family tradition). Son of Jose Caetano de Fraga and Maria Concecão
___ . We presume Antonio was born a de Fraga and, like most of
his siblings and other de Fragas who immigrated to the US, changed
the name to Frago. Antonio married Docia May Jinkerson and they
were the parents of :
1. Joseph Paul Frago (12 July 1898
31 June 1986)
2. Eva Luzon Frago Jennings (27 August 1899 24 February
1953)
3. Lonnie Marie Frago Chapman (my grandmother) (9 June 1901
18 July 1976)
4. Hazel Mae Frago Barnett (23 April 1903 1993)
5. Homer Ward Frago (25 September 1906 7 December 2000).
Click on Antonio
and Docia for photos and more detail of their lives.
Click on progeny to see a chart
showing 114 of the descendants of Antonio and Docia.
Jose Caetano de Fraga: (last updated: 11 June 2001)
My gg grandfather. (Hazel Marie
Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago < Antonio C. de Fraga <
Jose Caetano de Fraga) Born in 1844 (perhaps in the Azores, or
Lisbon, or Galicia Spain?). Died 1938 in Fajã Grande,
Flores Island, the Azores (Portugal). Jose married Maria Concecão
Fragueira and they were the parents of:
1.
Antonio de Fraga (Frago) (my great grandfather)(1870 1911)
2.
Jose Fraga - lived in Oakland, then Turlock, and then Fresno,
California with wife Adelaida and children Joe and twins David
and Angelina.
3.
John de Fraga - had daughters Zulmira, Mary, and Conceçao.
4.
Maria Fraga - married a Silva and lived in Ukiah, California.
5.
Francisco Fraga - left daughters Maria da Parmo Fagundes and
Ana Fragueira de Fraga in the Azores and moved to California,
living in Oakland briefly with brother Jose and later dying in
French Camp, California. His daughter Ana cared for Jose Caetano
de Fraga in his old age in the family home in the Azores.
6.
Manuel Jose Fraga (6 March 1877 21 February 1947) - married
Maria Jose de Gloria Laranjo 28 April 1898 in Fajã Grande,
Azores. Manuel came to the USA in 1899, lived with his brother
Antonio in Two Dot, Montana in 1900, and his wife joined him
in Turlock, California in 1905. They had 4 children: Joe, Mary,
Adeline, and Zelda.
Jose and Maria may have previously lived
in Lisbon Portugal and one or both of them, in Spain before that.
Cousin William Frago is investigating the possible origins in
the towns of Fraga, Catalunya, Spain or Fraga, Galicia, Spain.
It is said that Jose and Maria were devout Catholics, but there
is also speculation that Maria's ancestors may have been Sephardic
Jews. Maria had given Antonio 5 handmade blankets that she had
personally designed, spun, carded, dyed, and woven the wool for.
We believe that one of Great Aunt Hazel Frago Barnett's granddaughters
might still have one. If I can obtain a good photograph of it
I will post it here.There are portraits
of Jose and Maria that were emailed from newly-met cousin
Elaine Souza Wilson (granddaughter of Manuel Jose Fraga) and
are newly-posted (11 June 2001). Elaine is traveling to Fajã
Grande next week, so there will be new information, likely by
the end of July 2001, so check back. Family tradition has it
that Jose worked as a steward (?) on board an English freighter.
He may have lived briefly in New Bedford, Massachusetts. [Thanks
to Evelyn and Michael for sending me a photocopy of a letter
written in 1980 by Jose and Maria's granddaughter Adeline Frago
Fernandes. Adeline, now deceased, was Manuel's daughter, and
her letter named enough relatives and facts for me to be sure
that her grandfather (Jose Caetano de Fraga) was indeed my gg
grandfather. Adeline also had maintained a correspondence, in
English, with her grandfather. I hope to obtain copies of that
correspondence, if it still exists. I am not yet clear on Evelyn's
relationship to us, but her family also has stories of Spanish
roots for either Jose Caetano de Fraga or his wife Maria Concecão
Fragueira. There are many Fragos living in the Central Valley
of California and it is difficult to ascertain relationships
yet, because there are so many Franks (Francisco), Marias (Mary),
Joses (Joe), Manuels and Johns. Most of the de Fragas changed
their name to Frago when they came to the USA, although some
changed to Fraga, Fargo, and even Fragie.]
Maria Conceção Fragueira de Fraga: My great
great grandmother. see Fragueira.
de MUMB (see: Von Mumb)
FINGERLIN
(see: Von Fingerlin)
FINK
Henrietta Christine Fink: My Great Grandmother. (Edward Edgar Cleveland
< William Alfred von Fingerlin < Henrietta Fink) Born 3
May 1855 in Münster-am-Stein, Pfalz, Germany. Married 20
June 1874 in Columbia, South Carolina to Edgar Maximilian von
Fingerlin-Büsching. Mother of:
1. Natalie Annie Hampton von Fingerlin
(9 Jan 1875 - 8 Jun 1890) Died of "consumption" (Tuberculosis)
at age 15.
2. William Alfred von Fingerlin (10 Oct 1877 - 14 Nov 1962).
My cousin Marjorie, who was 6 when Henrietta
died, remembers her as tall, slender, and always wearing black.
It is said that Henrietta liked to eat pretzels and drink beer
and that she felt that her son married "beneath his station."
My mother pointed out a difference between Henrietta and her
daughter-in-law (Grandma Jennie): Henrietta's etiquette for finishing
a meal required leaving something uneaten, while Jennie insisted
that the children clean their plates of every morsel. Henrietta
died in 1933 in Glendale, California and was buried at Christ
Church Cemetery, Greenville, South Carolina. Residences in the
US include: Columbia South Carolina, 1874?-1880 (in University
of South Carolina campus housing at 1880 census); Greenville
South Carolina, 1880?-1903? (925 E North Street per the 1896-97
City Directory)(112 Highland Avenue per the 1899-1900 City Directory)(331
Anderson Street at 1900 census); Warrensburg Missouri, 1904?-1906?;
Los Angeles and Santa Monica California, 1906?-1919; San Diego
California; and Glendale California. FINK is the spelling given
for Henrietta on her son's application for Social Security in
1951; however, it may have been FINCKE or VINK or ? in Germany.
Also, the Almanach de Gotha lists her first name as HENRIETTE
instead of HENRIETTA and her birth year as 1854.
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FRAGO (see also: de FRAGA)
Another surname that underwent changes
when transported from the Azores to the United States. At this
time it is believed that my great grandfather Antonio C Frago
was born de Fraga , as his father was born Jose Caetano de Fraga.
Some Fragas became Fargo. Antonio's brothers also became Fragos,
except perhaps, John, who may have kept the de Fraga name. There
is a story of a Fraga who changed his name to Fragie.
Antonio C Frago:
My great grandfather. See de Fraga.
Docia May Jinkerson Frago Martin: See Jinkerson.
Lonnie Marie Frago: My maternal grandmother. Daughter of Antonio C
Frago and Docia May Jinkerson. Born 9 June 1901 in Two Dot, Meagher
County, Montana. Married to Lonzo McKinley Chapman. Mother of:
1. Hazel Marie Chapman Cleveland (my mother)(1918
)
2. Derwood Orville Chapman (1920 1998)
3. Patricia Lorraine Chapman Swanhart (1926 )
Lonnie married young (16) though she had
been warned that Lonzo was a little wild and had "been to
California." She worked in a shoe factory in St Louis Missouri;
during the Great Depression she worked as a cook for a wealthy
St Louis family; and in the 1950's she and grandpa owned 2 "Big
Orange" juice stands, one in Pixley, California, and the
other, a larger drive-in restaurant Big Orange with a fancy neon
sign, in Ukiah California. Lonnie had black hair and eyes, a
round face, ample figure, and stood 5' 5" tall. She was
stricken with sleeping sickness during the 1933 Encephalitis
epidemic in St Louis. She had a sweet disposition, attended the
Church of Religious Science and liked to read Joel Goldsmith
and Walter C Lanyon. When she was first diagnosed with colon
cancer, her first thought was to seek out Jim Jones (an infamous,
charismatic faith healer who had settled in Redwood Valley with
forays to San Francisco and that final, fatally-failed utopia
in Guyana, South America). She and mom had attended many of his
services at the People's Temple and had enjoyed the gospel singing
, admired the many social good works of Jones, and gave credence
to some of his seeming healings and confidence games. The Reverend
Jones did have the good sense to advise Grandma to seek out medical
professionals. She died about 5 years later on 18 July 1976 in
Redwood Valley, Mendocino County, California.
FRAGUEIRA
Maria Conceção Fragueira: My gg grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman <
Lonnie Marie Frago < Antonio C de Fraga < Maria Conceção
Fragueira) Married Jose Caetano de Fraga and had 6 children in
Fajã Grande, Flores Island, the Azores, Portugal. She
carded, spun, dyed, designed, and wove woolen blankets for each
of her son Antonio's children, and probably did the same for
her other grandchildren. Our blanket was last held by cousin
Gennie in Washington state, and, because of the blanket's artistry
and antiquity, it was thought to be donated to a Portuguese heritage
museum. Maria died in Fajã Grande about 1921. see: | photo | 6
children |
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GILLIAM
Mary Gilliam:
My ggg grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago
< Docia May Jinkerson < William Solomon Jinkerson <
Mary Gilliam) Married Ezekial Jinkerson 18 March 1847 in Cub
Creek, Washington County, Missouri. Mother of :
1. George Jinkerson (1847-?)
2. William Solomon Jinkerson (my gg grandfather) (1849-1910?)
3. Sarah E Jinkerson (1855-?)
4. James F Jinkerson (1858-1915)
5. Henrietta Jinkerson (1859-?)
6. Ana Jinkerson Walton
7. Martha Jane Jinkerson Skaggs (1862-?)
8. Drusilla Jinkerson Skaggs (1865-?)
9. Rebecca Anne Jinkerson (1867-?)
10. Margaret A Jinkerson (1867-?)
11. Jessica Jinkerson (1873-?)
HENDERSON
Elizabeth Henderson Huitt: My ggg grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman <
Lonnie Marie Frago < Docia May Jinkerson < Louisiana Cordelia
Huitt < Elizabeth Henderson) Born 17 October 1807 in Virginia.
Died 11 January 1882 and buried at Cub Creek Missouri where her
tombstone still stands. Before marrying William Huitt she rode
by horseback from Virginia to Caledonia, Missouri. Mother of
:
1. Elizabeth Huitt. b. 19 March 1827. Married
Andrew Laramore.
2. Mary Ann Huitt Todd. b. about 1830 in Caledonia, Missouri.
Married Matthew A Todd 13 August 1846 in Caledonia (?) Missouri.
(It is said that Matthew A Todd was the brother of First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln)
3 William C Huitt. b. about 1832 in Caledonia, Missouri. Married
Mary Love 1853 in Courtois, Missouri. Served in US Civil War.
4. Rachel J Huitt. b. 1841 in Caledonia, Missouri.
5. Sarah C Huitt. b. about 1844.
6. Alzara Huitt. b. about 1846.
7. Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Huitt. (my gg grandmother)
b. 20 December 1849, near Caledonia, Missouri. Married William
Solomon Jinkerson 19 September 1869. Died 15 January 1928 at
Leadwood, Missouri.
8. daughter Huitt. Married George Laramore.
HEWITT (later HUITT)
Hewitt and Huitt are the most common spellings
of this family surname, and it is believed that James Hewitt,
my gggg grandfather (1774-1814) is responsible for changing the
spelling from Hewitt to Huitt in our line. Much of the information
about the closest Hewitts/Huitts (from James Sr forward) originally
came from cousin Paul Farmer and his wife Alice of Mattoon IL
[ http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/a/r/Josephine-A-Farmer/GENE8-0003.html
], but I have also abstracted data from these distant cousins
on the web: Harvey E Huitt of Theodore AL [ http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/huittanc.html
], and Esther Carroll of Washington County MO [ http://www.carrollscorner.net/HuittIndex.htm
],
James Hewitt, Sr:
My gggg grandfather. (Hazel Marie Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago
< Docia May Jinkerson < Louisiana Cordelia Huitt < William
Huitt < James Hewitt) James was born in 1774 in South Carolina.
He married Elizabeth Webb in 1797 in Georgia. When he died, on
12 Aug 1814, his was the first estate settled in Washington County,
Missouri, and is No 1 in the probate books. Paul Farmer of Illinois
researched this early Hewitt/Huitt information and has a copy
of the inventory of his estate. James changed the spelling to
Huitt and was the father of:
1. Lemuel Huitt. b.1798 in Georgia. d.
about 1855 in Crawford County, Missouri
2. Elijah Huitt. b. about 1800 in Georgia. Elizah went to Fort
Smith, Arkansas in 1818, married and had 2 children, James &
Susan.
3. John Huitt. b. about 1802.
4. William Huitt. (my ggg grandfather) b. 1804 in Georgia. d.
before 1890 in Palmer, Missouri.
5. James Huitt Jr. b. 1806 in Caledonia, Missouri. He was co-administrator
of his father's will in 1861.
6. Greene Huitt. b. 1809 in Caledonia, Missouri. Died after 1861.
7. Wilkinson Huitt. b.1812. Married Sally Robinson 12 July 1833
in Washington County, Missouri.
HUITT (originally HEWITT)
Elizabeth Webb Huitt: My gggg grandmother. See Webb.
Elizabeth Henderson Huitt Brock:
My ggg grandmother. See Henderson.
James Huitt: My gggg grandfather. See Hewitt.
Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Huitt : My gg grandmother.
( Hazel Marie Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago < Docia May
Jinkerson < Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Huitt) Daughter
of Elizabeth Henderson and William Hewitt. Born 20 December 1849
in Missouri. Died 15 January 1928 and buried at Leadwood Cemetery,
Leadwood Missouri. Lucy's grandson Paul Farmer remembers her
as "a large, very pleasant lady." My mother remembers
that she had naturally black hair even in her 70's and gossips
would say that she dyed it. She may have been as tall as 6 feet
and could chop wood with the best of them. She married William
Solomon Jinkerson and they may have had as many as 15 children,
but the following are all that can be named:
1. Docia May Jinkerson Frago Martin (my
great grandmother) (18 July 1870 1949)
2. Matthew Jinkerson (1872 1949)
3. Mary Elizabeth Jinkerson Wilkerson (1874 1952)
4. Alzarah Jinkerson Farmer (1877 1951) Mom said Aunt "Allie"
made the best caramel cake.
5. Frances Jinkerson (1879? 1895?)
6. Louisiana Cordelia "Delia" Jinkerson McCumber (1880
1968)
7. Hester V "Hettie" Jinkerson Mason (1882 1928)
8. Paul Ezekial Jinkerson (1883-1958)
9. Herbert Raymond Jinkerson (1885 1974)
10. Loman Solomon Jinkerson (1887-1953)
11. Leonard Jinkerson (1891-1901).
William Hewitt: My ggg grandfather. (Hazel Marie Chapman
< Lonnie Marie Frago < Docia May Jinkerson < Louisiana
Cordelia Huitt < William Hewitt ) Born 1804 in Georgia. Served
in US Civil War. Died in Missouri. Married Elizabeth Henderson.
Father of :
1. Elizabeth Huitt. b. 19 March 1827. Married
Andrew Laramore.
2. Mary Ann Huitt Todd. b. about 1830 in Caledonia, Missouri.
Married Matthew A Todd 13 August 1846 in Caledonia (?) Missouri.
(It is said that Matthew A Todd was the brother of First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln)
3 William C Huitt. b. about 1832 in Caledonia, Missouri. Married
Mary Love 1853 in Courtois, Missouri. Served in US Civil War.
4. Rachel J Huitt. b. 1841 in Caledonia, Missouri.
5. Sarah C Huitt. b. about 1844.
6. Alzara Huitt. b. about 1846.
7. Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Huitt. (my gg grandmother)
b. 20 December 1849, near Caledonia, Missouri. Married William
Solomon Jinkerson 19 September 1869. Died 15 January 1928 at
Leadwood, Missouri.
8. daughter Huitt. Married George Laramore.
JINKERSON
Paul Farmer (his mother was Alzarah Jinkerson
Farmer, my great grandmother Docia May Jinkerson's sister) and
his wife Alice with the help of Joy Jinkerson and others provided
most of the Jinkerson information that follows. Alice has posted
their family genealogies at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/f/a/r/Josephine-A-Farmer/index.html
. If you go there, scroll and navigate to the Jinkerson lines;
it is very well organized.
Docia May Jinkerson : My Great Grandmother. Daughter of William Solomon
Jinkerson and Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Huitt. Born
18 July 1870 (?) in Palmer Missouri. Died July 1949 in Irondale
or Leadwood Missouri and is buried in Bonneterre Missouri. Married
(1) about 1897 to Antonio C Frago in Two Dot, Meagher County,
Montana. Mother of :
1. Joseph Paul Frago (12 July 1898
31 June 1986)
2. Eva Luzon Frago Jennings (27 August 1899 24 February
1953)
3. Lonnie Marie Frago Chapman (my grandmother) (9 June 1901
18 July 1976)
4. Hazel Mae Frago Barnett (23 April 1903 1993)
5. Homer Ward Frago (25 September 1905 7 December 2000).
Docia married (2) George Martin about 1920.
Click on Antonio and Docia
for photos and more detail of their lives.
Click on progeny to see a chart
showing 114 of the descendants of Antonio and Docia.
Ezekiel Jinkerson: My ggg grandfather.
(Hazel Marie Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago < Docia May Jinkerson
< William Solomon Jinkerson < Ezekiel Jinkerson) Son of
George Jinkerson and Jane Simpson. Born in the Potosi Palmer
area, Washington County, Missouri about 1825. Married Mary Gilliam
18 March 1847 in Cub Creek, Washington County, Missouri. Father
of:
1. George Jinkerson (1847-?)
2. William Solomon Jinkerson (my gg grandfather) (1849-1910?)
3. Sarah E Jinkerson (1855-?)
4. James F Jinkerson (1858-1915)
5. Henrietta Jinkerson (1859-?)
6. Ana Jinkerson Walton
7. Martha Jane Jinkerson Skaggs (1862-?)
8. Drusilla Jinkerson Skaggs (1865-?)
9. Rebecca Anne Jinkerson (1867-?)
10. Margaret A Jinkerson (1867-?)
11. Jessica Jinkerson (1873-?).
Ezekiel died sometime after 1880 in Palmer
Missouri. His tombstone, in Palmer Cemetery reads "Ezekial
and Mary Jinkerson" but no dates. Ezekiel was the Postmaster
at Palmer Missouri from 6 March 1866 to 1 June 1874. He was also
Justice of the Peace in 1871. He fought with the Union Army at
the Battle of Pilot Knob (Missouri) during the Civil War. He
had a brother George Jinkerson and a brother Shurlock Jinkerson,
who went to California during the Gold Rush.
George A Jinkerson: My gggg grandfather. (Hazel Marie
Chapman < Lonnie Marie Frago < Docia May Jinkerson <
William Solomon Jinkerson < Ezekiel Jinkerson < George
A Jinkerson) Born about 1794 in Pennsylvania. Died in Palmer
Missouri. Buried in Palmer Cemetery, Palmer Missouri. George
married Jane Simpson 31 August 1828 in Washington County, Missouri.
Father of:
1.William Shurlock Jinkerson (born about
1823)
2. Ezekial Jinkerson (born about 1825)
3. Andrew J Jinkerson (born about 1827)
4. Thomas J Jinkerson (born 1829)
5. George W Jinkerson (born1830)
6. Benjamin Franklin Jinkerson (born about 1835)
7. Augustus Jinkerson (born 1837).
Jane Simpson Jinkerson: My gggg grandmother. See Simpson.
Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Huitt Jinkerson: My
gg grandmother. See Huitt.
William Solomon Jinkerson: My gg
grandfather. Son of Ezekial Jinkerson and Mary Gilliam Jinkerson.
Born 1849 in Palmer Missouri. Married to Louisiana Cordelia Huitt
on 19 September 1869 in Caledonia Missouri. Buried at Cub Creek
Cemetery, Washington County, Missouri. Father of:
1. Docia May Jinkerson Frago Martin (my
great grandmother) (18 July 1870 1949)
2. Matthew Jinkerson (1872 1949)
3. Mary Elizabeth Jinkerson Wilkerson (1874 1952)
4. Alzarah Jinkerson Farmer (1877 1951)
5. Frances Jinkerson (1879? 1895?)
6. Louisiana Cordelia "Delia" Jinkerson McCumber (1880
1968)
7. Hester V "Hettie" Jinkerson Mason (1882 1928)
8. Paul Ezekial Jinkerson (1883-1958)
9. Herbert Raymond Jinkerson (1885 1974)
10. Loman Solomon Jinkerson (1887-1953)
11. Leonard Jinkerson (1891-1901)
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KRAUSE
Jeanette "Jennie" Krause:
(birth name may have been Janka)
My paternal grandmother. Daughter of Leopold Krause and Katherine
___. Born 13 October 1885 in Prague Bohemia (now Czech Republic).
Died 11 September 1952 in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California.
Married (1) to William Alfred von Fingerlin, AKA William Alfred
Cleveland. Their children were:
1. Katherine Cleveland DeTarr Cox Tackett
Sitton (16 January 1906? - October 1989)
2. Edward Edgar Cleveland (25 February 1907 - 25 March 1992)
3. Margaret Cleveland (24 July 1911- 30 October 1912)
4. Arthur Cleveland (aka: Joe Mitchell) (1911? - 1986?)
5. William Marcus Cleveland (7 November 1913 -15 August 1997)
6. Samuel Cleveland (aka: Nicholas Alexander Cleveland) (26 May
1915 - 6 February 1998)
More biography at Jeanette
Krause page.
LAUCKS (?)
MUMB
(von Mühlheim)
Barbara "Betty"
(Baroness) Mumb von Mühlheim: My gg grandmother. (Edward
Edgar Cleveland < William Alfred von Fingerlin < Edgar
Maximilian von Fingerlin Büsching < Barbara von Mumb
von Mühlheim) Daughter of Baron von Mumb von Mühlheim
and Louise (Baroness) von Schimmelfenning. Here's a link to an
illustrated page for
Barbara. Barbara was widowed at least twice and married three
times:
- Married (1): to Nikolaus (Baron) von Mainau
who is said to have gone insane and died in 1841. Barbara and
Nikolaus had 2 daughters:
- 1.
Nathalie (Baroness) von Mainau
2.
Marie (Baroness) von Mainau (Marie married a de Pancrazi who
lived in Perugia, Italy
- Married (2) to Edgar (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching
in 1842, the marriage contract having been drawn up on 24 March,
and the actual ceremony taking place a few days or weeks later.
Barbara and Edgar had 4 children in swift succession; the last,
Edgar Maximilian, born 6 months after his father died of gangrene
on 22 August 1845.
- 3.
Roger (Baron) von Fingerlin. (b. 26 October 1842 at Gaillingen;
d. after 1882 in Argentina?)
4.
Edwin Heinrich Moritz (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching. (b.
26 January 1844 at Worblingen Castle, near Konstanz Germany;
died 14 April 1860, from a fall of 200 feet and was buried in
a vault under the main aisle of the cathedral at Frascati, Italy)
5.
Lavinie (Baroness) von Fingerlin-Büsching. (b. 25 February
1845 at Worblingen Castle; d. 1845)
6.
Edgar Maximilian (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching. (b. 9 February
1846 in Konstanz, Germany; d. 29 September 1919 in Santa Monica,
California, USA)
- Married (3) to (General) Giovanni (Marquis)
Battista Zappi, 27 July 1848. Barbara and Giovanni had a son:
- 7.
Luigi (Marquis) Zappi (born: 1854 in Bologna, Italy. He earned
an LLD (Doctor of Law degree) at Pisa, was Mayor of Imola, and
was elected Senator representing Bologna in the Italian Parliament
1890-1910. The Zappi website
is extensive and covers much Italian history, as well as such
illustrious Zappis as painter Lavinia Fontana Zappi (1552 - 1614)
who enjoyed the patronage of the family of Pope Gregory XIII
and painted the likenesses of many eminent people. That site
also said that Barbara raised her son Luigi in Bologna, where
he had little contact until age 16 with his father
who was off battling enemies of the Pope. Not all of the information
at www.zappi.org is reliable (it's difficult enough to know the
present); note that Barbara's name is given there as "Nump."
Cousin Paolo has provided some fascinating
descriptive text that will soon tell you more about our "Betty."
Franz Mumb (baron) von Mühlheim: [My ggg grandfather: Franz MvM > Barbara MvM
> Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin > Alfred William von Fingerlin/Cleveland
> Edward Edgar Cleveland] Born in Chrudim, Bohemia, 30 March
1754, Franz died in Temesvár, Romania. He married 8 December
1814 to Aloysia Karolina (baroness) von Schimmelpenning van der
Oye, who was born in Vienna Austria, 22 April 1790 and died in
Baden Bie Vien, Austria 26 October 1868.
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PITZER (BITZER)
REED
Mary Reed : My
gggg grandmother. Daughter of Humphrey Reed, Sr. Born 1780±
in Virginia. Died 1819± in Virginia, possibly in childbirth.
Married Emera "Emery" Altizer Jr, a farmer, in 1805±
in Virginia. Their children were:
1. Andrew Reed Altizer (1807 ?)
2. Edward A Altizer (1809± ?)
3. Anna (Julia?) Altizer Reed (1809± ?)
4. Dicy "Bitey" Altizer Reed (1811 1865)
5. Elias Reed "Ale" Altizer (1812 1900)
6. Mary O "Millie" Altizer Dulaney (1819±
?)
SCAGGS
Lydia Scaggs: My
ggg grandmother. Born December 1808 in Virginia. Married Andrew
Reed Altizer in Virginia. Their children were:
1. Edmondson "Ed" Altizer (1830
1863)
2. Mary Ann Altizer Thompson (1832 1863)
3. Emery S Altizer (1834 ?)
4. Joseph A Altizer (1836 1921?)
5. Martha M Altizer Applegate (1840 1921)
6. Sparel Hale Altizer (1843 1921)
7. Simon Slade "S.S." Altizer (1845 1907?)
8. Andrew Paris Altizer (1848 ?)
9. Elias Altizer (1850 ?)
10. William Altizer (1853 ?).
SCHERER
Kaspar Heinrich von
Scherer von Scherburg:
see: von Scherer
Ursula von Scherer von Scherburg: see: von Scherer
SIMPSON
Jane Simpson: My gggg grandmother. Jane married George A Jinkerson
31 August 1828 in Washington County, Missouri. Their children
were:
1.William Shurlock Jinkerson (born about
1823)
2. Ezekial Jinkerson (born about 1825) (my ggg.grandfater)
3. Andrew J Jinkerson (born about 1827)
4. Thomas J Jinkerson (born 1829)
5. George W Jinkerson (born1830)
6. Benjamin Franklin Jinkerson (born about 1835)
7. Augustus Jinkerson (born 1837).
THOMPSON
Alberta Ann Thompson: My great grandmother. (Hazel Marie Chapman>Lonzo
McKinley Chapman>Alberta Ann Thompson) Daughter of Charles
T Thompson and Mary Ann Altizer Thompson. Born 6 July 1855 in
Virginia. Died 9 February 1921 near Houston, Texas Co, Missouri.
Married 20 March 1878 at the home of her parents in Goodwater,
Iron Co, MO, to James A Chapman (Alberta Ann was his second of
two wives). Alberta was an herbalist, midwife, and setter of bones.
The children of James and Alberta were:
1. Mollie E Chapman Mincher (17 December
1878 12 February 1910)
2. Margie Alcie Chapman Thurman (8 September 1880 12 February
1960)
3. Ludie Chapman Yount (11 December 1882 17 November 1971)
4. Charles Calvin Chapman (15 September 1884 24 February
1956)
5. Gentry Judd Chapman (30 August 1886 31 October 1967)
6. Elbert Luther Chapman (17 October 1888 26 July 1970)
7. Minnie Lee Chapman Baker (3 September 1890)
8. Audra Belle Chapman Turner (12 August 1892 12 May 1976)
9. Lonzo McKinley Chapman (31 August 1896 3 August 1965)
(my grandfather)
10. Ada Pearl Chapman Leathers (3 August 1898 ?)
Charles T Thompson: My gg grandfather. (Hazel Marie Chapman>Lonzo
McKinley Chapman>Alberta Ann Thompson>Charles T Thompson)
Son of Samuel Thompson Jr and Diadema ___. Born 1834 in Montgomery
Co, Virginia. Married (1) Mary Ann Altizer 6 January 1853 in
Surry Co, North Carolina. Father of: Alberta Ann Thompson
Chapman (1855-1921), Henry E Thompson (twin, 1856-1920),
William F Thompson (twin, 1856-?), Joseph A Thompson (twin, 1860-1922),
John M Thompson (twin, 1860-?), and Lydia E Thompson Payne (1862-1916).
Married (2) Elizabeth Brown Miller 23 August 1865. Father of
Sam Thompson, Charles Thompson, Marina Thompson, Josephine Thompson,
Nancy Cornelia Thompson, and Virginia Thompson.
Mary Ann Altizer Thompson: My gg grandmother. See Altizer.
Samuel Thompson, Jr: My ggg grandfather. (Hazel Marie
Chapman>Lonzo McKinley Chapman>Alberta Ann Thompson>Charles
T Thompson>Samuel Thompson Jr) Son of Samuel Thompson, Sr?
Born 1799± in Floyd Co, Virginia. Died 2 June 1892 at
Courtois Creek, Missouri, buried on his farm, also known as Crocker
Cemetery. Married Diadema ___ 4 May 1832. Father of Charles
T Thompson, et al?
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von
FINGERLIN
Thanks to the Google search engine, this
website, and my ingenious cousin Paolo deGasperis who found it
on 26 February 2001, more is being revealed almost daily about
the von Fingerlin-Büschings. Paolo's great grandfather,
Roger von Fingerlin, was a brother to my great grandfather Edgar
Maximilian von Fingerlin and Paolo has brought a depth of research
that will amaze you all. Soon, I hope. Click here
to get to a von Fingerlin page that explains the name and aspects
of nobility and promises to grow over the next several months.
The inclusion of the title imperial baron or baroness followed
the von Fingerlins from 1804. jmc 13 March 2001
Alfred William (Baron) von Fingerlin: AKA William Alfred Cleveland. My paternal grandfather.
Son of Baron Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin Büsching and
Henriette C Fink. Born 10 October 1877 in Columbia, South Carolina.
Married Jeanette Krause (Grandma
Jennie). Their children were:
1. Katherine Cleveland DeTarr Cox Tackett
Sitton (16 January 1906? - October 1989)
2. Edward Edgar Cleveland (25 February 1907 - 25 March 1992)
3. Margaret Cleveland (24 July 1911- 30 October 1912)
4. Arthur Cleveland (aka: Joe Mitchell) (1911? - 1986?)
5. William Marcus Cleveland (7 November 1913 -15 August 1997)
6. Samuel Cleveland (aka: Nicholas Alexander Cleveland) (26 May
1915 - 6 February 1998)
The family burial plot at Christ Church
Cemetery in Greenville South Carolina has an unmarked grave for
A. von Fingerlin's infant daughter (buried 25 February 1897),
so we assume there was a first wife before Grandma Jennie. Jeanette
"Jennie" Krause was his second wife. With a pregnancy
developing, they eloped in 1905? and, after a passionate and
turbulent marriage, were divorced in the late 1920's or early
1930's. Grandpa left Grandma Jennie to Marry Dr Ella ___ and
move to San Diego. They were later divorced and in his final
years he married once more. He attended Furman University (where
his father taught) and served in the cavalry during the Spanish
American War. It is said that he worked for the Immigration Service
at Ellis Island in New York. After he married Grandma Jennie,
he worked as a jeweler-watchmaker and they lived all around the
southern US, including Georgia (Trion, Lindale, Atlanta), Alabama
(Hartselle, Muscle Shoals), Mississippi (Corinth), Texas (Beaumont,
San Marcos) and Southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles).
It is said that he was something of a Cassanova and that might
explain the many moves across the South and his several marriages.
He was also a stern and overbearing disciplinarian to his children,
using a fishing rod to whip them. His parents called him Alfred,
but as an adult he was known as Bill. Daddy referred to him as
"Poop Deck Pappy" and said that when the family lived
in southern California, the boys contributed a good deal of their
paychecks to build the family home. To be specific, of his $23.47
per week paycheck, Daddy gave Grandpa $20 to help build their
house at 367 Leslie Way in Highland Park (Los Angeles). Grandpa
lived with us in 1958 and I remember him rising to his feet whenever
he heard "The Star Spangled Banner" play on television.
Grandpa Cleveland stood over 6 feet tall and had blond hair.
He died in San Diego California at the age of 85, 14 November
1962, and is buried next to Grandma Jennie at the cemetery on
Low Gap Road in Ukiah California.
August Heinrich (Baron) von Fingerlin-Bisching: My
ggg grandfather. (Edward Edgar Cleveland<William Alfred von
Fingerlin<Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin-Büsching<
Edgar Freiherr von Fingerlin-Büsching < August Heinrich
Freijherr von Fingerlin-Bisching) Son of Caspar Daniel Freiherr
von Fingerlin-Büsching and Ursula von Scherer von Scherburg.
Married to Anna Marie Aspermont? Click to see a family
tree with Coats of Arms that was drawn up for August Heinrich
circa 1804.
1. Rüdiger Baron von Fingerlin.
2. Alfred Baron von Fingerlin. (b. 2 September 1807 in Ofen [Budapest,
Hungary]; m. ---; d. 9 April 1890 in Konstanz, Germany)
3. Edgar Baron von Fingerlin-Bisching. (b. 18 May 1810 in Ofen
[Budapest, Hungary]; m. 1842 to Barbara von Mumb von Mühlheim
in Konstanz, Germany; d. 22 August 1845, 6pm, at Worblingen Castle
near Konstanz, Germany)
Barbara "Betty" (Baroness) von Fingerlin-Büsching:
My gg grandmother. See: Mumb.
Edgar (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching:
My gg grandfather. (Edward Edgar Cleveland<William Alfred
von Fingerlin<Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin Büsching<Edgar
von Fingerlin-Büsching) Son of August Heinrich von Fingerlin-Büsching
and Anna Marie Aspermont? Born 18 May 1810 in Ofen (Budapest,
Hungary) and died of gangrene on 22 August 1845 at Worblingen
Castle near Konstanz, Germany. Married to Barbara "Betty"
von Mumb von Mühlheim (widow of Nikolaus Baron von Mainau)
in 1842, the marriage contract having been drawn up on 24 March,
and the actual ceremony taking place a few days or weeks later.
Barbara and Edgar had 4 children in swift succession; the last,
Edgar Maximilian, born 6 months after his father died.
1.
Roger (Baron) von Fingerlin. (b. 26 October 1842 at Gaillingen;
d. after 1884 in Argentina?)
2.
Edwin Heinrich Moriz (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching. (b.
26 January 1844, at Worblingen Castle, near Konstanz Germany;
died 14 June 1860, from a fall of 200 feet and was buried in
a vault under the main aisle of the cathedral at Frascati, Italy)
3. Lavinia Mathilde Anna (Baroness) von Fingerlin-Büsching.
(b. 26 February 1845 at Worblingen Castle; d. 1846)
4. Edgar Maximilian (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching. (b.
9 February 1846 in Konstanz, Germany; d. 29 September 1919 in
Santa Monica, California, USA)
Edgar Maximilian (Baron) von Fingerlin-Büsching: My great grandfather. (Edward Edgar Cleveland>William
Alfred von Fingerlin>Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin Büsching).
Son of Baron Edgar von Fingerlin and the Baroness Barbara von
Mumb von Mulheim. Born 9 February 1846 in Konstanz, then the
State of Baden, now Germany, on the Bodensee. Married Henriette
C Fink about 1872. Father of Natalie Annie Hampton von Fingerlin
(9 Jan 1875 - 8 Jun 1890) and Alfred William von Fingerlin (10
Oct 1877 - 14 Nov 1962). Died 29 September 1919 in Santa Monica
California. Buried with his wife, daughter, and infant granddaughter
at Christ Church Cemetery, Greenville South Carolina. Because
he was by birth a baron, an attaché to the court of Emperor
Franz Josef of Austria, and later, by occupation, a university
professor, there is much documentation about his life and his
lineage. Click here for a page that
include photographs, first-person accounts of Edgar's school
days in Rome, obituaries, and other articles.
Henriette Christine Fink von Fingerlin: My great grandmother.
See Fink .
von MAINAU
Barbara "Betty" (Baronin)
von Mainau: My gg grandmother in
her first marriage. See: Mumb.
von MÜHLHEIM
Barbara "Betty"
(Baroness) Mumb von Mühlheim: My gg grandmother. see: Mumb
von SCHERER
Ursula von Scherer von
Scherburg: My gggg
grandmother. (Edward Edgar Cleveland
< William Alfred von Fingerlin < Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin-Büsching
< Edgar von Fingerlin-Büsching < August Heinrich von
Fingerlin-Büsching < Ursula von Scherer von Scherburg).
Born 15 or 19 December 1754. Daughter of Kaspar Heinrich von
Scherer von Scherburg and Dorothea von Zollicofer von Neugesberg.
Married Caspar Daniel von Fingerlin-Büsching. They were
the parents of:
- Gustav von Fingerlin-Büsching, born
in Lyon, France (?)
Caspar Heinrich von Fingerlin-Büsching, born 20 January
1776 in Arbon, Switzerland
August Heinrich von Fingerlin-Büsching, born 14 May 1781
in Arbon, Switzerland
Gustav died at the Battle of Eggmühl
on 22 April 1809; Caspar Heinrich and August Heinrich (and their
heirs) were awarded the title Freijherr (baron) on 5 February
1804.
von ZOLLICOFER
D. von Zollicofer: My ggggg? grandmother. (Edward Edgar Cleveland > William Alfred von
Fingerlin > Edgar Maximilian von Fingerlin Büsching >
? > August Heinrich Freijherr von Fingerlin-Büsching
> Ursula von Icherer von Icherburg > D von Zollicofer)
Mother of Ursula von Icherer von Icherburg. Zollicofer believed
to be a Swiss name.
WEBB
Elizabeth Webb: My gggg grandmother. (Hazel Marie
Chapman > Lonnie Marie Frago > Docia May Jinkerson >
Louisiana Cordelia "Lucy" Hewitt > William Hewitt
> Elizabeth Webb) Born in South Carolina. Born 1773 in North
Carolina? Married (1) James Hewitt 1797 in Georgia? and after
he died, married (2)Thomas Brock who was born about 1790 (?)
in Sussex County, England. Elizabeth died in 1860 or 1870 and
is buried at the Huitt-Brock Cemetery at Brock's Creek, Missouri.
While married to James Huitt, Elizabeth was the mother of:
1. Lemuel Huitt. b.1798 in Georgia. d.
about 1855 in Crawford County, Missouri
2. Elizah Huitt. b. about 1800 in Georgia. Elizah went to Fort
Smith, Arkansas in 1818, married and had 2 children, James &
Susan.
3. John Huitt. b. about 1802.
4. William Huitt. (my ggg grandfather) b 1804 in Georgia. d.
before 1890 in Palmer, Missouri.
5. James Huitt Jr. b. 1806 in Caledonia, Missouri. He was co-administrator
of his father's will in 1861.
6. Greene Huitt. b. 1809 in Caledonia, Missouri. Died after 1861.
7. Wilkinson Huitt. b.1812.Married Sally Robinson 12 July 1833
in Washington County, Missouri.
WEIDMAN
ZAPPI
Barbara "Betty"
(Baroness) von Mumb von Mühlheim, (Baronin) von Mainau,
(Baronin) von Fingerlin-Büsching, (Marquesa) Zappi: My gg grandmother. see Mumb.
ZOLLICOFER (see von Zollicofer)
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